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# Google’s Project Magenta Used Machine Learning To Write A Song [LISTEN]
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/googles-project-magenta-used-machine-learning-to-write-a-song-listen/
- Published: 2016-06-03T13:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-03T13:53:00.000Z
- Description: Can a machine really write a good song? Sound scary? Perhaps, a more interesting question is, how might a musician collaborate with a machine to write a song or make. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/06/googles-project-magenta-used-machine-learning-to-write-a-song-listen.html
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Music Tech, AI, Machine learning, music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:22

**[![Google-logo](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c867a332970b-150wi "Google-logo")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c867a332970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Can a machine really write a good song?** Sound scary? Perhaps, a more interesting question is, **how might a musician collaborate with a machine to write a song** or make art? **Google is funding projects** that explore these questions and they want artists to get involved.

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Google has launched Magenta, a project from the [Google Brain team](https://research.google.com/teams/brain/?ref=hypebot.com) that asks: "Can we use machine learning to create compelling art and music?"

In the announcement, **Magenta explains its two goals:**

[![image from magenta.tensorflow.org](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c867a3b4970b-150wi "image from magenta.tensorflow.org")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c867a3b4970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)"First, it’s a research project to **advance the state of the art in machine intelligence for music and art generation**. Machine learning has already been used extensively to understand content, as in speech recognition or translation. With Magenta, we want to explore the other side—**developing algorithms that can learn how to generate art and music**, potentially creating compelling and artistic content on their own.""Second, Magenta is an attempt to **build a community of artists, coders and machine learning researchers**. The core Magenta team will build **open-source infrastructure around TensorFlow for making art and music.** We’ll start with audio and video support, tools for working with formats like MIDI, and platforms that help artists connect to machine learning models. For example, we want to **make it super simple to play music along with a [Magenta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01V9S8%5F7A0I&feature=youtu.be&ref=hypebot.com) performance model.**"

**How To Get Involved**

If you want to get involved, check out the Artists and Machine Intelligence blog and group **[here](https://medium.com/artists-and-machine-intelligence?ref=hypebot.com)**. It's a program at Google that brings together artists and engineers to realize projects using Machine Intelligence.

**Listen to a 90 second track that the Magenta team** 

**created using machine learning [here](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/media/cdn2-vox-cdn-com/uploads/chorus%5Fasset/file/6577761/google%5F-%5Fmagenta%5Fmusic%5Fsample-0.mp3?ref=hypebot.com).**

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